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Re:Extreme Parkour with Legged Robots by mcbutterbunz on Monday October 09, 2023 @04:23PM (#37825031)
Its my assumption that biology inspired robots would adapt better to a biological world. It might also be easier to solve problems by copying those who have already figured out a solution.
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Re:Extreme Parkour with Legged Robots by Mistletoe on Monday October 09, 2023 @04:56PM (#37825397)
Nature can’t really make a nice wheel and free wheeling hub though. Blood vessels would get ripped off, cartilage etc.
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Re:Extreme Parkour with Legged Robots by lusus_naturae on Monday October 09, 2023 @11:47PM (#37828329)
Nature does it own version of a "wheel", mainly in flagella: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_locomotion_in_livin...
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Re:Extreme Parkour with Legged Robots by Mistletoe on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @01:07PM (#37834685)
That’s very true but it doesn’t seem to scale up well from that. :)
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